29 Oct 2014

Typewriter silhouette quiz results

Here are the answers you've been waiting for. Alternates and clarifications in parenthesis.

1 - Imperial Good Companion 1 (Model T)

2 - Rheinmetall KsT (Supermetall, Soemtron)

3 - Underwood Standard Portable (4-bank)

4 - Olympia SM7

5 - Voss (1950-1952)

6 - Remington Streamliner (Model 5)

7 - Olivetti Valentine

8 - Erika 10 (12)

9 - Royal Model P

10 - Triumph Perfekt (3rd generation, Norm)

11 - Groma Modell N (T, E)

12 - Smith-Corona Silent-Super (Super 5)

13 - Imperial Good Companion 5

14 - Hermes 3000

15 - Voss De Luxe

16 - Remington Portable 1 (Portable 2)

17 - Corona Sterling (flattop)

18 - Torpedo 18 (2nd generation)

19 - Olivetti Studio 44

20 - Underwood Universal (Champion)

21 - Continental Klein-Conti

22 - Olympia SM3 (SM4)

23 Royal Quiet De Luxe (1948-1949)

24 - Everest K2

Only two people participated! As they say, if you snooze you loose. Scott Kernaghan got 7 completely right and 2 partially right, for a score of 8. Richard Polt got 15 right and 1 partly right, for a score of 15.5. It's interesting how some of the typewriters Scott identified, Richard didn't, and vice versa.

This is my 400th blog post. This means 100 posts on my new blog address!

3 comments:

When I edited ETCetera I kept thinking that I should run a carriage return lever quiz. That's often the most distinctive part of a typewriter model, and it's what I depended on most heavily in my guesses. It was fun!